Point Richmond seen from close-by Nicholl Knob Point Richmond seen from close-by Nicholl Knob Richmond (/ r t m nd/ rich-m nd) is a town/city in Contra Costa County, California, United States.
The town/city was incorporated on August 7, 1905. Located in the easterly region of the San Francisco Bay Area, Richmond borders the metros/cities of San Pablo, Albany, El Cerrito and Pinole in addition to the unincorporated communities of North Richmond, Hasford Heights, Kensington, El Sobrante, Bayview-Montalvin Manor, Tara Hills, and East Richmond Heights, and briefly San Francisco on Red Rock Island.
Under the Mc - Laughlin Administration, Richmond was the biggest city in the United States served by a Green Party mayor. As of the 2010 U.S.
Census, the city's populace is at 103,710, making it the second biggest city in the United States titled Richmond.
The largest, Richmond, Virginia, is the namesake of the California city.
Southern Richmond in 1930, at the time the town of Stege, California The Ohlone Indians were the first inhabitants of the Richmond area, settling an estimated 5,000 years ago. Edmund Randolph, originally from Richmond, Virginia, represented the town/city of San Francisco when California's first council met in San Jose in December 1849, and he became state assemblyman from San Francisco.
His loyalty to the town of his birth caused him to persuade a federal surveying party mapping the San Francisco Bay to place the names "Point Richmond" and "Richmond" on an 1854 geodetic coast map, which was the geodetic map at the terminal chose by the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad; and by 1899 maps made by the barns carried the name "Point Richmond Avenue," designating a county road that later became Barrett Avenue, a central street in Richmond.
Richmond was established and incorporated in 1905, carved out of Rancho San Pablo, from which the close-by town of San Pablo inherited its name.
The end of the Santa Fe Railroad was established in Richmond with ferry connections at Ferry Point in the Brickyard Cove region of Point Richmond to San Francisco.
At the outset of World War II, the four Richmond Shipyards were assembled along the Richmond waterfront, employing thousands of workers, many recruited from all over the United States, including many African-Americans and women entering the workforce for the first time.
Many of these workers lived in specially constructed homes scattered throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, including Richmond, Berkeley and Albany.
Kaiser's Richmond shipyards assembled 747 Victory and Liberty ships for the war accomplishment, more than any other site in the U.S. The town/city broke many records and even assembled one Liberty ship in a record five days.
The medical fitness established for the shipyard workers at the Richmond Field Hospital eventually became today's Kaiser Permanente HMO. It remained in operation until 1993 when it was replaced by the undivided Richmond Medical Center hospital, that has later period to a large multiple building campus.
Point Richmond was originally the commercial core of the city, but a new downtown arose in the center of the city.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s the Richmond Parkway was assembled along the industrialized and northwestern parkland of the town/city connecting Interstates 80 and 580.
In the early 1900s, the Santa Fe barns established a primary rail yard adjoining to Point Richmond.
Where this track crosses the chief street in Point Richmond, there remain two of the last working wigwag undertaking crossing signals in the United States, and the only surviving examples of the "upside-down" type.
The Pullman Company also established a primary facility in Richmond in the early 20th century. The facility connected with both the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific and serviced their passenger coach equipment.
The Pullman Company was a large employer of African American men, who worked mainly as porters on the Pullman cars. Many of them settled in the East Bay, from Richmond to Oakland, before to World War II.
The city's old rundown commercial precinct along Macdonald has been designated the city's "Main Street District" by the state of California.
The town/city sits on 32 miles (51 km) of waterfront, more than any other town/city in the Bay Area. The town/city borders San Francisco Bay to the southwest and San Pablo Bay to the northwest, and includes Brooks Island and the Brother Islands entirely, and half of Red Rock Island.
There are a several cities and unincorporated communities encircling or bordering Richmond.
To the south is the town/city of Albany which is in Alameda County and the town/city of El Cerrito.
The unincorporated communities of East Richmond Heights, Rollingwood, Hasford Heights, and El Sobrante lie to the east.
North Richmond to the west and San Pablo to the east are almost entirely surrounded by Richmond's town/city limits.
To the north, Richmond borders the town/city of Pinole and the unincorporated areas of Bayview, Montalvin Manor, Hilltop Green, Tara Hills.
Richmond borders Alameda, San Francisco, and Marin counties in the Bay and Red Rock Island.
Richmond, like much of the coastal East Bay, appreciates a very mild Mediterranean climate year round.
The average highs range from 57 to 73 F (14 to 23 C) and the lows between 43 to 56 F (6 to 13 C) year round. Richmond usually appreciates an "Indian summer", and September is, on average, the warmest month.
Like most of the Bay Area, Richmond is made up of a several microclimates.
This may be due to San Francisco Bay's notorious fog and also the fact that a majority of Richmond lies on a flat coastal plain dominantly consisting of reclaimed tidal marshes, inter-tidal flats, and seep. Morning humidity is 75% to 92% year round; afternoon humidity is more variable.
Climate data for Richmond, California (1981 2010 normals) After a baby grey whale was beached on the Point Richmond shore in May 2007, its rotting corpse became bothersome to neighbors.
Richmond is also home to one of the last pristine moist grassland surroundings in the entire Bay Area at the former Campus Bay UC Berkeley Field Station near Meeker Slough. Richmond residents, however, have limited access to other surroundingal benefits.
The town/city has in the past suffered from a high crime rate; at one point, the town/city council requested a declaration of a state of emergency and asked for the intervention of the Contra Costa County Sheriff and the California Highway Patrol. Murder, vehicle theft, and larceny rates remain high, although they tend to be concentrated in the Iron Triangle and adjoining unincorporated North Richmond, which is outside the jurisdiction of the Richmond Police Department.
The town/city received widespread consideration in 2009 when a girl was gang raped at a homecoming dance at Richmond High School.
In 2007, Richmond opened a program to prevent gun violence, the Office of Neighborhood Safety. The program collects knowledge and analyzes enhance records to determine "the 50 citizens in Richmond most likely to shoot someone and to be shot themselves." In 2004, Richmond was ranked the 12th most dangerous town/city in America. Those rankings have changed, and Richmond is no longer a ranked as a "most dangerous" city, in either California or the United States.
Map showing the Hayward fault running through the easterly Richmond hills and the hilltop region through to San Pablo Bay Richmond lies in the volatile California region that has a potential for devastating earthquakes.
The city's shoreline and wildlife were seriously affected by the 2007 San Francisco Bay petroleum spill.
There are 17 emergency warning sirens in the city, they are tested every Wednesday and are usually used to warn of toxic chemical releases from the Chevron Richmond Refinery. The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Richmond had a populace of 103,701.
City of Richmond Government The Social Security Administration employs over 1,000 at its county-wide office and program service center in Downtown Richmond.
Kaiser Permanente's Richmond Medical Center hospital in the Downtown Richmond is one of the biggest employers in the city.
Kaiser Permanente Richmond Medical Center in downtown Richmond.
In the Downtown Richmond District the Richmond Shopping Center was assembled as part of the city's "main street" revitalization accomplishments.
"Big-box" stores already in the town/city include Costco in the Point Isabel region and a Home Depot which is partially in Richmond.
The former Richmond Shipyards were transformed starting in the late 1980s into a multiunit residentiary area, Marina Bay.
The town/city also created a redevelopment agency that refurbished Macdonald Avenue, funded the Metro Walk transit village, resurrected the Macdonald 80 Shopping Center, and created the Richmond Greenway rails-to-trails trail and urban farming project.
Seacliff, at Point Richmond, is a evolution of luxury waterfront homes assembled on a terraced hillside.
Richmond Transit Village has been constructed in the former west parking lot and an adjoining empty lot of the combined Richmond BART and Amtrak station.
On September 11, 2013, the seven-member Richmond City Council, in a four-to-three vote, decided to pursue a scheme for using eminent domain to buy out mortgages. The vote was on "[setting] up a Joint Powers Authority to bring more metros/cities into the plan".
North Las Vegas, Nevada and California governments including El Monte Fontana, the town/city of Ontario and San Bernardino County had considered such plans but decided not to pursue them. The vote made Richmond the first to accept the idea. The plan had been opposed by the vice-mayor and some members of the town/city council, who said it would "compromise" the city's finances.
Critics also questioned the inclusion of wealthy neighborhoods such as "the region near the Richmond Country Club". The Western Contra Costa Association of Realtors hired a enhance relations agency and sent mass mailings warning against the scheme; its advertising was "funded, in part, by more than $70,000 from the California Association of Realtors and the National Associations of Realtors." Deutsche Bank and Wells Fargo had sued, claiming the program was unconstitutional. "he National Housing Law Project, Housing and Economic Rights Advocates, Bay Area Legal Aid, the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, and the California Reinvestment Coalition" opposed the suit, calling the banks' request for an injunction against the town/city "discrimination in violation of the Fair Housing Act". Sugar Bowl Casino proposes a casino, a steakhouse, and a buffet promoted by the Pomo Tribe's Scotts Valley Band near the border between North Richmond and the town/city of Richmond's Parchester Village, whose inhabitants have lauded it as a boon to fighting crime by adding more of a police existence and creating jobs for shiftless youth, but inhabitants from neighboring newly advanced sub-divisions along the Richmond Country Club were fervently opposed based on potential losses to property values. Casino San Pablo has already been assembled in neighboring San Pablo, with 2,500 slots.
In 2010 the town/city allowed the surroundingal review of the plan in which the tribe agreed to contain evolution of the casino to the footprint of the buildings on the former naval depot site. The lobbying and reports required by Richmond have cost the tribe $15,000,000. This approval won over the region's strict surroundingalists and many council members. Later that year inhabitants were given the opportunity to weigh in on the copy and voted on the non-binding measure U to determine their approval of the project. 58% of voters opposed the 1 billion-dollar project. Citing the citizens 's opposition and the inability to negotiate a several key points with the developer, the town/city council voted down the universal in 2011. Councilman Nat Bates remained a proponent of the plan with its projected 17,000 jobs, while the remainder of the council was chagrined at the fact that there was no guarantee that the jobs would go to Richmonders. The town/city of San Pablo, whose lifeline is their card club, Casino San Pablo, was elated.
Main article: Richmond City Council (Richmond, California) Richmond town/city government operates under a council-manager fitness with nine members (including mayor and vice mayor) propel to alternating four-year terms. Politically, the town/city is a Democratic stronghold.
The position of Mayor rotated between members of the Richmond City Council until 1981, when the office became an propel position. George D.
Years of political domination by the small-town firefighters union subsided after a FBI corruption investigation. In the early 2000s Gayle Mc - Laughlin was the first Green propel to the council, with the support of the Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA), a coalition of liberal Democrats, progressive autonomouss, and Greens.
The town/city of Richmond has eight improve centers which are positioned inside town/city parks. Many of the city's improve centers were closed in the early 2000s following budget miscalculations and financial difficulties.
The town/city has eight cannabis dispensaries, and although the town/city has passed legislation approving them and has legalized their presence, town/city management does not accept their legality.
It is trying to enforce an injunction that would suspend their operating licenses. Although the town/city council has passed an ordinance permitting the dispensaries, town/city management refuses to cooperate with the spirit of the law because it has yet to take effect. The question remains whether the clubs will be closed before the law allowing them to open takes effect. Richmond is governed by the Richmond City Council.
Richmond is served by the Richmond Police Department and Richmond Fire Department.
Dozens of parks are run by the Richmond Parks & Recreation Department.
The Richmond Civic Center is presently undergoing a seismic upgrade and renovations program.
Prior to winning the mayoral election, he served on the Richmond City Council for 20 years (from 1995 to 2015) and served as the city's vice-mayor in 2002 and 2012.
Richmond is also home to the West County Detention Center in the Point Pinole area.
Richmond - Works and Richmond Summer Youth - Works are town/city programs that aim to decline unemployment and crime and have led to hundreds receiving employment at region retail businesses. Fires, medical emergencies and other disasters are handled by the Richmond Fire Department which has seven fire stations in the city.
Sewage is largely handed by the Richmond Sewage Treatment Plant in Point Richmond. De Anza High School, positioned in Richmond's Eastern Valley area, also serves the close-by unincorporated areas.
The enhance schools in Richmond are administered by the West Contra Costa Unified School District, formerly the Richmond Unified School District.
The town/city has four high schools: De Anza High School, Salesian High School, Richmond High School, and Kennedy High School .
In addition, there are three charter high schools, Making Waves Academy, Leadership Public Schools: Richmond and West County Community High School, although West County Community High School was shut down in 2012.
In 2012, Richmond Charter Academy, part of the Amethod Public Schools system, opened a charter middle school.
Richmond also hosts three adult education schools.
The Contra Costa Community College District serves all of Contra Costa County, and Richmonders who decide to attend a improve college typically go to Contra Costa College, positioned in the neighboring town/city of San Pablo.
79.8% of Richmonders have a high school diploma or equivalent, compared with 84.2% nationally.
Since an exit exam requirement was implemented for California high schools, the CAHSEE, some Richmond high school students have been protesting against it.
That year, only 28% of Richmond High School students had passed the CAHSEE, a prerequisite for graduating. All Richmond schools have banned junk food, such as candy, soda, Twinkies, pizza, and other similar items in attempt to curb childhood obesity and change children's eating habits.
It has been speculated that this was done preemptively, because some believe the state will soon mandate such restrictions. Even with these accomplishments, soda consumption in Richmond schools has not diminished. Furthermore, the current 32% of Richmond kids who are obese will increase the current 24% adult obesity rate to 42% as stated to the Contra Costa County Health Services. This led the town/city council to approve a popular vote on a 1 cent per ounce tax on beverages with a high sugar content for the 2012 elections, a first in the nation. The measure was opposed by councilmembers Corky Booze and Nat Bates, who stated that he knew "many obese citizens that are perfectly healthy" and that it was "elitist" and "targeted black" citizens in the order given. Members Jovanka Beckles and Jeff Ritterman the latter a cardiologist expressed horror at the obesity rate.
The town/city of Richmond has dozens of parks, nationwide historic parks, and 10 sites listed under the National Register of Historic Places. Point Richmond, which is in effect a village inside Richmond, is known for its small-town charm and its quaint shops.
This led town/city leaders to construct the Richmond Civic Center in 1957.
The Richmond Public Library, the only enhance library autonomous of the Contra Costa County Public Libraries system, lies in the heart of the civic center.
The Golden State Railroad Museum is a complex series of model barns layouts in a exhibition in the Brickyard Cove region of Point Richmond.
Point Richmond is one of the city's widely known and expensive neighborhoods; Richmond Chevron Refinery and the marshlands in the background.
The Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park is in Richmond, and memorializes women's ship assembly and support for the war accomplishment in the 1940s.
Point Molate Beach Park is a park on the coast of Richmond along Western Drive.
Several county-wide parks administered by the East Bay Regional Park District lie inside the city, including the Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline and the Point Pinole Regional Shoreline.
The Richmond Art Center, established by Hazel Salmi in 1936, is one of the earliest continually operating non-profit art centers on the entire West Coast of the United States.
The Center presently (as of 2005) provides some of the only arts education programming in the Richmond City School District, relying primarily on enhance donations and private grants as its means of support.
There is also the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Hilltop Multiplex, or Masquers Theaters in Point Richmond.
The Richmond Progressive Alliance and California Green Party are active political parties in Richmond.
Richmond is home to the National Institute of Art and Disabilities Art Center, also known locally as the NIAD Art Center.
The Richmond Art Center is a intact visual arts center, with a loggia and art classes in the heart of Richmond.
A showcase for emerging and established artists, the Richmond Art Center hosts the annual "The Art of Living Black," art show which is a showcase of the artwork of Bay Area Black Artists.
Founded in 1936 by small-town artist Hazel Salmi, the Richmond Art Center is a Bay Area cultural institution.
In addition, East Bay Center for the Performing Arts has maintained its roots in the Richmond improve since 1968.
Peters C.M.E.; Kingdom Land Baptist Church; Grace Baptist Church; Grace Lutheran Church; Temple Baptist Church; Unity Church of Richmond; Holy Trinity Episcopal Church; First Mexican Baptist Church; Holy Mission Christian Center; St.
Beach goers wading at Keller Beach in Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline in southern Richmond between Point Richmond and Brickyard Cove.
A new nationwide park, Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park is now under assembly in the former Kaiser shipyards and other state of war industrialized sites in Richmond.
Richmond was chose for the park because it has many endured buildings that were constructed for 56 state of war industries.
The home front changed Richmond from a dominantly non-urban improve of 23,600 inhabitants to a diverse populace of over 100,000 citizens inside a year.
Fortunately, Richmond's and productive home front years were well chronicled and photographed.
Richmond also has number of small-town parks and two large county-wide parks are under the authority of the East Bay Regional Parks District, a consortium of most of the Parks and Recreation lands and facilities of Alameda and Contra Costa County.
It is situated in the easterly Richmond hills and stretches into Berkeley's Tilden Regional Park in Alameda County.
It will also follow the BART line to Richmond station and continue to Point Richmond.
An additional side universal will add a bike lane/bike trail between the Richmond Greenway and the Ohlone trail at Potrero Avenue via 23rd Street, Carlson Boulevard, Cutting Boulevard, and Potrero.
Richmond is home to four marinas: the Brickyard Cove Yacht Club, Point San Pablo Yacht Club, Marina Bay Marina, and Channel Marina in the Santa Fe channel.
In addition, Richmond has the "Richmond Plunge", a municipal natatorium dating back to 1926 and which reopened August 14, 2010.
The pool is positioned in the Point Richmond neighborhood.
The town/city has annual Juneteenth and Cinco de Mayo celebrations. The Cinco de Mayo celebrations sponsored by the 23rd Street Merchant's Association attracts thousands and closes the entire length of the roadway. The Richmond Police Department, Fire Brigade, United States Marine Corps and other organizations participate in the parade. This is in addition to a fireworks show at Marina Bay celebrating the 4 July and a Silly Parade, an event where citizens march down the street and generally act "weird" and silly. The town/city also participates in various Earth Day activities. The town/city hosts an annual and a physical activeness and nutrition forum to discuss community in the community, it has been running since 2006. In 2010 the town/city began celebrating the Richmond Native American Pow-Wow in Nicholl Park, in 2012 this encompassed area politicians and members of over 50 tribes from throughout the country. The Richmond Post and Richmond Globe publish print and online editions.
Richmond - Confidential.org, which is run by the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, is a general interest online-only news printed announcement serving the town/city of Richmond.
Main article: Port of Richmond, California The Port of Richmond, positioned in along the city's southern coast beside the Richmond Inner Harbor, handles the third-largest shipping tonnage in California annually, a total of 19 million short tons.
Interstate 80 cuts through the easterly and northeastern portions of the city, through a mostly residentiary area, connecting to Pinole, Hercules and then on to Vallejo via the Carquinez Bridge in the eastbound direction, and through, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville and eventually terminating in San Francisco via the Bay Bridge in the westbound direction.
The weekday westbound morning commute on I-80 through Richmond lies inside the most congested stretch of freeway in the Bay Area, as stated to Caltrans, and has been ranked as such since 2001. Interstate 580 curves along the southern waterside of Richmond and merges into I-80 in Albany in the southern Oakland/San Francisco direction while slicing through different medium and heavy industries and homes through Point Richmond and onto the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge over the San Pablo Bay segment of the San Francisco Bay into San Rafael and Marin County.
The Richmond Parkway, assembled in the between the early 1990s and early 2000s joins I-580 in the Point Richmond region in the southwest to the Hilltop Area and I-80, it runs along the city's heavily industrialized side and through unincorporated region of North Richmond.
San Pablo Avenue (State Route 123) runs through Richmond and San Pablo to Pinole, Hercules and to its end in Crockett and south through El Cerrito, Albany, Emeryville, and Berkeley, until it runs into Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland.
Macdonald Avenue is the "mainstreet" of Richmond, running east-west from Atchison Village through downtown to San Pablo Avenue in the North & East neighborhood.
Cutting Boulevard alongsides Macdonald Avenue to the south, traveling from Point Richmond to Arlington Ave.
23rd Street runs through the heart of the town/city north-south from where it turns to Marina Bay Parkway at I-580 through this heavily Latino company precinct and neighborhood to San Pablo Avenue in the town/city of San Pablo.
Hilltop Drive is a trunk street which runs from Richmond Parkway, crosses San Pablo Avenue, passes Hilltop Mall and continues over Interstate 80 into the neighboring town/city of El Sobrante.
Carlson Boulevard (formerly Pullman Avenue) is the major access from Downtown Richmond to the Richmond Annex neighborhood, starting from 23rd Street and terminating at San Pablo Avenue just north of the Alameda-Contra Costa county boundary, feeding into the El Cerrito Plaza shopping center.
Amtrak provides intercity passenger rail service from Richmond Station, an intermodal connection shared with the BART system.
The county-wide San Joaquin Route runs from close-by Oakland to the south through Richmond and Martinez to the Central Valley through Stockton and Fresno, terminating in Bakersfield.
The second Amtrak line, the Capitol Corridor runs from San Jose to the state capitol, Sacramento, through Richmond, Fairfield, and Davis; some trains continue to the northern Sacramento suburb of Auburn.
BART has one station in the town/city of Richmond, mentioned above, which serves as the northern end of the Richmond-Millbrae and Richmond-Fremont lines.
Two other stations are positioned near Richmond, El Cerrito del Norte and El Cerrito Plaza, both in El Cerrito.
AC Transit provides 14 bus lines in the town/city including small-town service throughout the town/city including BRT line 72 - R along San Pablo Avenue, "Transbay" commuter service athwart the Bay Bridge to the San Francisco Transbay Terminal and also owl "All-Nighter" service along the BART line.
There is also small-town service provided by the Richmond Circular Shuttle in addition to the Point Pinole Shuttle and Kaiser Shuttle.
In June 2007, after engaging with the improve for feedback with enhance hearings, AC Transit implemented the West Contra Costa County Service Plan which realigned existing service finds to reroute portions of certain lines, eliminate service to areas with low ridership, and replace service in some areas with service from a different route providing direct service to areas previously requiring tedious transfers.
Furthermore, a great accomplishment was made to furnish a better transfer at Richmond Station as well as the Richmond Parkway Transit Center.
Two of the greatest shifts will be extending BRT service to Richmond Parkway Transit Center and providing service along the Ohio Avenue corridor.
These shifts have effected the northern neighborhoods of the town/city and the adjoining communities of El Sobrante and San Pablo the most.
Golden Gate Transit provides a service from San Rafael in Marin County athwart the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge to Richmond and El Cerrito del Norte BART stations with routes 40 and 42.
Vallejo Transit (line 80) and Fairfield/Suisun Transit (line 85) and Napa VINE (line 29) furnish feeder services from the North Bay counties of Solano & Napa, primarily Vallejo but also Fairfield, Vacaville, and Napa and other metros/cities to El Cerrito del Norte BART, these busses pass through Richmond.
In addition to service in northern Richmond's Hilltop neighborhood.
Lines running through Richmond are: 16, 17, 18, 19, 30 - Z, C , J, JX, JPX Carlson Boulevard is the major access from Downtown Richmond to the Richmond Annex neighborhood, starting from 23rd street and terminating at San Pablo Avenue just north of the Alameda-Contra Costa county boundary, feeding into the El Cerrito Plaza shopping center.
Many years ago, the ATSF offered rail car ferry service from Point Richmond to San Francisco.
The partially burnt remnants of the ferry pier can still be seen at Point Richmond.
The Richmond Pacific Railroad (RPRC) is a class III shortline barns operating on 2.5 miles (4.0 km) of track, providing switching services at Richmond's wharves.
Richmond had commuter ferry service from the Richmond Ferry Terminal to the San Francisco Ferry Building on weekdays and Fisherman's Wharf on weekends in addition to special Giants Ballpark service amid the baseball season.
The Richmond ferry terminal is at Ford Point positioned adjoining to the historic Ford Plant in Marina Bay which is now open as an industrialized park and under renovation.
The terminal had its own dedicated AC Transit feeder service from Point Richmond and downtown Richmond with route 374 also now discontinued. A new ferry service from Richmond is prepared for 2018 by the San Francisco Bay Area Water Transit Authority.
The new ferry will take only half an hour to San Francisco and will use the existing terminal and parking facilities at Ford Point in Marina Bay. Recently most of the town/city council except Tom Butt and Mayor Mc - Laughlin have lost interest in the universal instead supporting using the site for period Toyota vehicle importation parking which that business has expressed an interest in. The town/city has aggressively advanced its portions of the San Francisco Bay Trail and has more than any other town/city at present.
The town/city is also presently developing the Richmond Greenway a rails to trails universal running alongside to Macdonald Avenue which will feed into the Ohlone Trail which serves as feeder service for the El Cerrito del Norte BART station.
There is also the Hercules Bikeway connecting the Ohlone Trail with Hercules, which runs along the neighborhoods of East Richmond and El Sobrante.
The town/city also has many miles of trails in that park in addition to Miller/Knox, Point Isabel, and Point Pinole parks, among others.
Tree-lined San Pablo Avenue at Macdonald Avenue with an AC Transit BRT stop and businesses in easterly Richmond.
Richmond BART Station inside the intermodal Richmond Station which carries 1.9 million passengers annually.
The Richmond Fire Department is the fire and rescue service for Richmond, and by contract with Contra Costa County it also serves East Richmond Heights, and North Richmond. The Richmond Police Department is headquartered at the Richmond Civic Center; the command posts building was recently renovated and is LEED certified. Richmond's waste disposal and recycling is handled by the Richmond Sanitary Service.
Ken Carter, Richmond High School coach, inspiration for 2005 film Coach Carter The town/city can roughly be divided into the northern Hilltop/El Sobrante, easterly Central/East Richmond, downtown/Iron Triangle and Southern Point Richmond/Marina Bay areas.
To Place Our Deeds: The African American Community in Richmond, California, 1910 1963 (Paperback) by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore, University of California Press; 1 version (February 5, 2001).
This book is an anthropological study of a group of American Rom (Gypsies) living in Richmond (Barvale), California.
The film documentary "Enough is Enough: Live From Tent City in Richmond, CA," details a grassroots boss of Richmond town/city residents to fight violence on their streets. The basketball movie, Coach Carter although filmed athwart the bay in San Francisco was based on the story of the Richmond High School Basketball team being benched for poor grades despite an undefeated season.
De - Vry College has made a commercial showing businesses along San Pablo Avenue in Richmond.
Kaiser Permanente made a commercial showing a man riding a bicycle in Point Richmond.
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Any vote to seize assets through eminent domain requires a supermajority of the council, per state law, meaning that five of Richmond's seven council members would need to agree.
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